A business can write off almost all of its expenses(wages, rent, equipment depreciation) except for payments on dividends and lobbying. Once all those expenses are written off, taxes are paid on the left over portion. In other countries, businesses can't write off nearly as much stuff. If we want businesses in this country to be successful, we need to lower their expenses(cost of utilities, rent, start-up fees).

I'm fairly sure that Walmart doesn't have to pay the sales tax revenues to your town for several years; and how many smaller places will be put out of business because of this Walmart? That will result in an even lower tax revenue.

That's because she forgot that the week prior, her crew had a survival chance of 30% in whatever dangerous event that was happening.

Like a Soap-Opera?

Monopoly capitalism suggests it won't be long

Read: "We, the board and CEO, think that we can extract much more money out these web sites. Once they get to a point where we know they're overvalued, they will be sold off so we can pocket more than what 99% of the population will make in their lifetime."

Joking or serious, you are right

It's called financialization of EVERYTHING. If there is a dollar to be made, charge as much as you can and let the poor borrow at a high interest rate.

Your personal example of going to college really isn't relevant to modern times since tuition has gone up faster than the rate of inflation.

Read up on John Kenneth Galbraith and his theory of social balance; then you'll understand

Well, the Republicans sure seems like they hate the small guy.
If you want to start a small business, thanks to the Bush tax cuts, it now takes 15 years to write off any start-up costs other than the first $5000. They want to cut corporate taxes even more, but there are 30,000 corporations out of the 26 million businesses in the US.
I believe that businesses should be regulated only to the point where they are not hurting their employees and the environment; currently or for the future. I don't want to have to go to court because the pollutants these companies were dumping hurt me, but there was no law against it. Even Adam Smith said the Government should protect it's citizens from the unjust actions of others.